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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...starry-eyed Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, Manhattan's 1938-39 Glamor Girl, ended her debutante year and went off to summer in the Adirondacks, Stork Club Pressagent Chic Farmer, who picked her for the post, cast about for her 1939-40 successor. His best bet: tall, blonde, nightclubbing, 17-year-old Mary A. Steele, a product of Miss Chapin's finishing school and the daughter of the late Socialite Banker John Nelson Steele. Mused Publicist Farmer: "She has beautiful teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...months ago Harry Hopkins said he would resume residence in Iowa so that his motherless daughter, Diana, 7, could have a "real home." Last week, to make good, he leased for two years from Aetna Life Insurance Co. a 388-acre farm three miles north of Grinnell, Iowa, where he went to attend his college class reunion. On a neighboring farm he had worked as a hand when a boy. Before returning to Washington, he went out to look over his new crops (69 acres corn, 32 acres oats, ten acres soy beans). Said he: "Farmers have for the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Direct Contact | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Hudson. The Queen connived to preserve an illusion for Diana Hopkins, 7, suggested that the child see her first in her tiara for the Embassy State dinner. After that function (where Mrs. Woodrow Wilson had an inning), Their Majesties entrained for Red Bank, N. J., next morning were escorted to the destroyer Warrington at Sandy Hook. Hundreds of Britishers on chartered steamers missed them as they sailed across the Lower Bay to the Battery. Governor Lehman and Mayor LaGuardia got in behind them in a big Cadillac, squired them under prodigious police escort up the West Side express highway (chosen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Here Come the British | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Bright & early on her 18th birthday, starry-eyed Post-Debutante Brenda Diana Duff Frazier hopped out of bed, answered the telephone, told newsmen: "It's going to be a very quiet day. I'll probably lunch with mummy (Mrs. Frederic Watriss)*and go to the theatre with my grandmother, Lady Williams-Taylor, but that's all. I haven't decided yet what I'll wear." She was still undecided at noon when a Postal Telegraph songster arrived with flowers and caroled Happy Birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Charles Breunig Mary Lewis, Indianapolis Jack E. Bronston Georgia Clark, Rochester, N. H. Walter D. Brooks Anne Keith, Campello Robert P. Brundage Harriet Leatherbee, West Newton Joseph P. Burke Ann Corcoren, Cambridge Henry D. Burnham Elvine Richard, Hewlit, Long Island Chadwick R. Byer Shirley Saxe, Brookline Winthrop L. Carter Diana Fraser, Cambridge William E. Chambers Mitzl Berardi, Cleveland Frederick H. Chatfield Nancy Vogel, Brookline Robert Franklin Chick Dorothy Folk, Brooklyn Edward S. Cholmeley-Jones Betsey Saches, Chestnut Hill Alphonse F. Cifrino Rosamonde Piotti, Dorchester Jesse F. Cleveland Patricia Bammann, Norfolk, Va. Melton D. Cole Anne Eastman, New York Lovat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 160 Will Bring Girls to '42 Jubilee Tonight | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

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